Peace be with you (John 20:19) Christ promises a peace that passes understanding. He gave it to his disciples in a word. Do you experience that peace? Is your house at rest? People naturally desire and seek peace in all that they do. Problems? Try to solve them and be Read more…
Read John 20:19-31. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained. (John 20:23) After the resurrection, Jesus appeared to his disciples singly and in groups. He had different words for each. “Why are you weeping?” “Put your Read more…
Read John 20:11-18. Why are you weeping? (John 20:13) Angels seem usually to appear to announce big news. You are going to have more descendants than there are stars in the sky. You are going to have a baby. To you is born a savior. But these angels have only Read more…
Read Philippians 2:5-11. Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And Read more…
Read Philippians 3:4b-14. Rubbish. (Philippians 3:8) May I drive 30 mph in a 25 zone? I have spent an embarrassing amount of time thinking about this question. For a time I religiously paid attention to speed limits and to my own speed. I think I’ve driven my wife to exasperation Read more…
Read 2 Corinthians 5:16-21. We entreat you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. (2 Corinthians 5:20b) Our Lord said “I am the light of the world.” This light travels the land with the speed of, well, light, and it does not return before it illumines. This light draws Read more…
Psalm 63:1-8. My flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water (Psalm 63:1b). Where is that dry and weary land where there is no water? Where is that land of emptiness and of solitude? Where is that land of thirst and of Read more…
Read Philippians 3:17-4:1. For many live as enemies of the cross of Christ (Philippians 3:18a) Enemies in the church! Idolators! Many of them! They worship their bellies or their treasures or their pleasures or their honor. Their mind is on earthly things and they are bound for destruction. They are Read more…
I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. (Galatians 2:20) This searching and compelling sermon is a meditation on the three crosses of Golgatha, taken as a figure of three types of Christians. Tauler—Sermon for Ash Wednesday
Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. (Matthew 11:29-30) Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, Read more…